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TIL Led Zeppelin, REM, and Depeche Mode have never had a #1 single but, Rihanna has had 10.

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4PKg TIL a man leaped from a 7th story balcony at a Chinese shopping mall after his girlfriend refused to stop shopping. He reportedly told her she had ‘more shoes than she could wear in a lifetime’ before jumping to his death.
NX7E1 TIL that after the 2019 Alabama tornado, the Poarch Band of Creek Indians donated $184k to fund the funerals for all 23 fatalities as a result of the storm
xXpD TIL ‘Google’ is spelled the way it is because Larry Page and Sergey Brin accidentally misspelled 'googol’ when registering the trademark and domain name
XwNP TIL that a High School student served 5 years in jail and had to register as a sex offender after being falsely accused of rape by a classmate of his, because she didn’t want her mother to know she was sexually active.
E1jxP TIL that Beethoven didn't know how to read a metronome and that's why his tempo indications are slower than what feels right (+-12bpm). After decades of theorising about it, turns out he was just writing down the number on the bottom of the metronome's upper weight, not the top.